The limits and ultimate possibilities of technology of the activated sludge process
| Autor: | A. Buunnen, A.F. van Nieuwenhuijzen, C. A. Uijterlinde, A. G. N. van Bentem, B. A. Reitsma |
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| Rok vydání: | 2008 |
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| Zdroj: | Water Science and Technology. 58:1671-1677 |
| ISSN: | 1996-9732 0273-1223 |
| Popis: | The (low loaded) biological nutrient removing activated sludge process is the generally accepted and applied municipal wastewater treatment method in the Netherlands. The hydraulical and biological flexibility, robustness and cost efficiency of the process for advanced removal of nutrients like nitrogen and phosphorus without (too much) chemicals results in a wide application of the activated sludge process within Dutch waterboards. Presumably, wastewater treatment plants will have to contribute to the improvement of the quality of the receiving surface waters by producing cleaner effluent. In this perspective, the Dutch research organisation STOWA initiated a research project entitled “The Boundaries of the Activated Sludge Process” to investigate the possibilities and limitations of activated sludge processes to improve the effluent quality. It is concluded that the activated sludge process as applied and operated at WWTP's in the Netherlands has the potential to perform even better than the current effluent discharge standards (10 mg Ntotal/l and 1 mg Ptotal/l). Reaching the B-quality effluent ( the sludge load is below 0.06 kg BOD/kg TSS.d the internal recirculation is above 20 the BOD/N ratio of the influent is above 3. Complying with the A-quality effluent ( It is furthermore concluded that the static HSA-results are comparable to the dynamic ASM-results. So, for fast determinations of the limits of technology of different activated sludge processes static modelling seems to by sufficient. |
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